CentOS: Git from Source

centos_install_git.sh

# Source
# https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git

# Step 1
sudo yum -y install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel perl-devel zlib-devel

# Step 2 _ Enable docbook2X
# In order to be able to add the documentation in various formats (doc, html, info), 
# these additional dependencies are required
# https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F
sudo yum -y install epel-release
sudo yum -y install asciidoc xmlto docbook2X

# Additionally, if you’re using Fedora/RHEL/RHEL-derivatives, you need to do this
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/db2x_docbook2texi /usr/bin/docbook2x-texi

# Step 3
mkdir -p ~/src && cd ~/src

# You need to change version of git.
gitVersion="2.6.3"
rm v$gitVersion.tar.gz
rm -rf git-$gitVersion 
wget https://github.com/git/git/archive/v$gitVersion.tar.gz
tar -zxf v$gitVersion.tar.gz

# Step 4
cd git-$gitVersion 

make configure
./configure --prefix=/usr
make all doc info
sudo make install install-doc install-html install-info